Gonna be typing my reaction to the podcast as I listen to it, so apologies if it is a bit messy 
Just a note, I listened to the soundcloud version, so I canât comment on the video. Sorry about that!
@LinkThinks Iâll be waiting for your speedrun guide :v So is it faster in Japanese or English? Hahaha
I love how you have the background music at special times to make you remember certain scenes in the game. Makes me realize that having planetarian having such little BGMs makes all of them a little more memorable.
Hmm I donât remember about the old guy in planetarian mentioning that there was a robot specifically in that city, but I did remember that the junker talked about his colleague who warned him not to talk about a robot who was basically out of this world. But thatâs just my memory failing me again. So on that point, I think it might have been any robot, even if it wasnât Yumemi. The otherworldly robot doesnât have to be broken like yumemi, because the mindset of any robot would be totally different from the mindset of the junkers of that day and age. So probably any interaction with any robot would have been pretty traumatic for anyone during that humanity.
I quite loved that thing with her ribbons, and I believe it was one of the first things I noticed when I first played it 6 years ago. I guess itâs one of those things that add to her characterizations. On a technical side, I try to imagine what exactly the programmers try to look for when they make code to change those colors.
I think the part about âmankind remembering the beauty of the night skyâ just has so much meaning to the junker. While it was meant for people who are leaving the earth, the junker himself feels so hit by it exactly because he canât see the stars.
Oh I think one thing you guys forgot to mention with the fiddler crab is that the power shutting off is what actually caused the fiddler crab to turn on. So itâs ironic that watching the presentation caused the junker to feel more for yumemi, which caused the power to turn off, which caused the fiddler crab to block their way. Hypothetically, if he decided to bring yumemi home without watching the presentation, he would have had practically no problem. Well, such is the beauty of storytelling and the consequence upon consequence that leads to the climax~
Kind of annoying that you played the droning sound for quite a long time >_< A few seconds would have been enough, tbh. Though I did like the syncing of the shots with the discussion.
Regarding the âhonorâ of doing what you are told to do, I think that goes in with the âhumanityâ of Yumemi and the lack thereof of the Junker. The Junker seemingly does not know what his purpose is, and I feel if, he had never met Yumemi, he would have died without ever feeling âhonorâ at all.
Itâs surprising how just listening to you guys talking about it, especially that ending, is starting to bring tears to my eyes. I think this might have even more impact than just reading it by myself. Yeah now I really have to find the time to listen to all the rest of the drama CDs >_<
Oh hey I suddenly realized something! Maybe the reason why Yumemi stated that there hasnât been any customers in 29 years is because even though the âold junkerâ met and talked with Yumemi, he most likely did not watch the presentation and, thus, Yumemi may have not even considered that old junker a customer? Just a random thought
@rune_devrosâs talk about space quite reminds me of the âHappy Thoughtsâ in Rewrite. I wonât go into that here, as thereâs a whole different topic for that. Actually that whole thing about âresolving our problemsâ does tie into Rewrite in one way or another.
(I wonder if kanon and rabla listened to that 5 second soundclip lol)
Ohhhhh hey Aspi thought the same thing I was thinking regarding Rewrite! (not gonna delete my previous paragraph :P)
And you just said âRewriteâ instead of âplanetarianâ in âI feel that this whole point of Rewrite is the feeling of congruity in what we see and what is realityâ
Regarding the âthis is not a bad place to die,â I donât think that means that he is suicidal or has lost hope in life and the world (assuming there was any hope to begin with). Perhaps it is a simple note that the whole world is ugly and, when we dies, we would like to do so somewhere more peaceful. Everywhere else to die would be like you being another part of the world where everything dies, whereas dying in the planetarium is like dying in a sanctuary, where it is peaceful. Practically what I mean to say is, if he dies in a sanctuary, he will feel as if he had a peaceful death. Whereas if he died outside, he would be just another one of the ever decreasing population.
Anyways final notes, I do agree that you did a great job with the bookclub 
I will be honest that listening to you guys discuss it had a little bit more impact on me than just reading it by myself. Congratulations on the good work, guys, and I look forward to the next one 
